ELLEN SCHERR
Ellen Scherr (Board Certified Clinical Professional Counselor and CEO, Life Branches) is a licensed clinical mental health therapist who helps women over 40 rebuild their lives when the old version stops fitting. She is now turning clinical expertise and lived experience into honest conversations about midlife, divorce, identity, and what comes next. Through Life Branches and her Substack community, Ellen writes weekly posts that cut through the noise of "finding yourself" platitudes to address what's actually happening: the grief of outgrowing your own life, the relief of finally saying what you mean, and the messy work of becoming who you are when nobody's looking. She's built a space where women stop performing and start telling the truth—about aging, anger, ambition, and the uncomfortable gap between who they were and who they're becoming. She writes for women who are done shrinking themselves and ready to figure out who they actually are.